Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells. It starts in the bone marrow, the soft tissue inside most bones. Bone marrow is where blood cells are made. When you are healthy, your bone marrow makes white blood cells, which help your body fight infection. Red blood cells carry oxygen to all parts of your body. Platelets help your blood to clot. When you have leukemia, the bone marrow starts to make a lot of unusual white blood cells, called leukemia cells. They don't do the work of normal white blood cells, they grow faster than normal cells, and they don't stop growing when they should. Even though this is one out of three of the most popular cancers of teenagers only 17% of kids get it.
Symptoms include:
Headaches Fever and night sweats. . Bruising or bleeding easily. Bone or joint pain. A swollen or painful belly from an enlarged spleen. Swollen lymph nodes in the armpit, neck, or groin. Getting a lot of infections.
Brain Tumors The body is made up of many types of cells. Every type of cell has special functions. Most cells in the body grow and then divide in a neat way to shape new cells as they are needed to keep the body healthy and working properly. When cells lose the ability to control their growth, they divide too often and without any order. The extra cells form a mass of tissue called a tumor. Each year, more than 16,000 people find out they have a brain tumor. The causes of brain tumors are not known. Researchers are trying to solve this problem. The more they can find out about the causes of brain tumors, the better the chances of finding ways to stop them.
Symptoms of brain tumors include:
Headaches that tend to be worse in the morning and ease during the day Seizures Nausea or vomiting Weakness or loss of feeling in the arms or legs Stumbling or lack of coordination in walking (ataxic gait) Abnormal eye movements or changes in vision Drowsiness Changes in speech Changes in personality or memory Treatment for a brain tumor is up to a number of factors. Between these are the type, location, and size of the tumor, as well as the patient's age and general health. Treatment methods and schedules repeated contrast for children and adults. A treatment plan is developed to fit each patient's needs.
Lymphoma Lymphoma is a type of cancer involving cells of the immune system, called lymphocytes. Just as cancer represents many different diseases, lymphoma represents many different cancers of lymphocytes -- about 35 different subtypes, in fact. Lymphoma is a group of cancers that affect the cells that play a role in the immune system and mostly cells involved in the lymphatic system of the body, the lymphatic system is part of the immune system. The percentage of people diagnosed with Lymphoma was 1.8 per 100,000. The most widely used therapies are combinations of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Biological therapy, which takes advantage of the body's innate cancer-fighting ability, is used in some cases. Remission is not the same as cure. In remission, one may still have lymphoma cells in the body, but they are undetectable and cause no symptoms. When in remission, the lymphoma may come back. This is called recurrence. Remission that lasts a long time is called durable remission, and this is the goal of therapy. The duration of remission is a good indicator of the aggressiveness of the lymphoma and of the prognosis. A longer remission generally indicates a better prognosis.
Symptoms include
Fevers Chills Unexplained weight loss Night sweat Lack of energy
is cancer of the blood cells. It starts in the bone marrow, the soft tissue inside most bones. Bone marrow is where blood cells are made. When you are healthy, your bone marrow makes white blood cells, which help your body fight infection. Red blood cells carry oxygen to all parts of your body. Platelets help your blood to clot. When you have leukemia, the bone marrow starts to make a lot of unusual white blood cells, called leukemia cells. They don't do the work of normal white blood cells, they grow faster than normal cells, and they don't stop growing when they should. Even though this is one out of three of the most popular cancers of teenagers only 17% of kids get it.
Symptoms include:
Headaches
Fever and night sweats. .
Bruising or bleeding easily.
Bone or joint pain.
A swollen or painful belly from an enlarged spleen.
Swollen lymph nodes in the armpit, neck, or groin.
Getting a lot of infections.
Brain Tumors
The body is made up of many types of cells. Every type of cell has special functions. Most cells in the body grow and then divide in a neat way to shape new cells as they are needed to keep the body healthy and working properly. When cells lose the ability to control their growth, they divide too often and without any order. The extra cells form a mass of tissue called a tumor. Each year, more than 16,000 people find out they have a brain tumor. The causes of brain tumors are not known. Researchers are trying to solve this problem. The more they can find out about the causes of brain tumors, the better the chances of finding ways to stop them.
Symptoms of brain tumors include:
Headaches that tend to be worse in the morning and ease during the day
Seizures
Nausea or vomiting
Weakness or loss of feeling in the arms or legs
Stumbling or lack of coordination in walking (ataxic gait)
Abnormal eye movements or changes in vision
Drowsiness
Changes in speech
Changes in personality or memory
Treatment for a brain tumor is up to a number of factors. Between these are the type, location, and size of the tumor, as well as the patient's age and general health. Treatment methods and schedules repeated contrast for children and adults. A treatment plan is developed to fit each patient's needs.
Lymphoma
Lymphoma is a type of cancer involving cells of the immune system, called lymphocytes. Just as cancer represents many different diseases, lymphoma represents many different cancers of lymphocytes -- about 35 different subtypes, in fact. Lymphoma is a group of cancers that affect the cells that play a role in the immune system and mostly cells involved in the lymphatic system of the body, the lymphatic system is part of the immune system.
The percentage of people diagnosed with Lymphoma was 1.8 per 100,000.
The most widely used therapies are combinations of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Biological therapy, which takes advantage of the body's innate cancer-fighting ability, is used in some cases.
Remission is not the same as cure. In remission, one may still have lymphoma cells in the body, but they are undetectable and cause no symptoms.
When in remission, the lymphoma may come back. This is called recurrence.
Remission that lasts a long time is called durable remission, and this is the goal of therapy.
The duration of remission is a good indicator of the aggressiveness of the lymphoma and of the prognosis. A longer remission generally indicates a better prognosis.
Symptoms include
Fevers
Chills
Unexplained weight loss
Night sweat
Lack of energy